{"649016":{"#nid":"649016","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Zhang, Saeedifard Win IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Top Paper Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYi Zhang\u0026nbsp;and Maryam Saeedifard won the first place prize\u0026nbsp;paper\u0026nbsp;award\u0026nbsp;for 2020 in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E, one of the most impactful journals in the area of power electronics. Saeedifard is a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Zhang was a visiting Ph.D. student from Aalborg University who worked in Saeedifard\u0026rsquo;s research group in 2018-2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey will be presented with this\u0026nbsp;award\u0026nbsp;at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, to be held October 10-14, 2021 in Vancouver, Canada. Being selected for this\u0026nbsp;award\u0026nbsp;is a high honor and a tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact that the research has on the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;paper entitled \u0026quot;Mission Profile-based System-level Reliability Prediction Method for Modular Multilevel Converters\u0026quot; was selected out of 1,148\u0026nbsp;papers published and some 13,000\u0026nbsp;papers that were submitted to the journal.\u0026nbsp;The selection process for this prize paper was rigorous and went through multiple review levels and votes before the paper was selected for the award.\u0026nbsp;This paper is also co-authored by Huai Wang and Frede Blaabjerg,\u0026nbsp;who are both professors at\u0026nbsp;Aalborg University in Denmark.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis paper proposes a mission profile-based reliability prediction method for modular multilevel converters (MMC), which have become the most promising technology in medium-and high-voltage applications. It includes key modeling steps, such as long-term mission profile, analytical power loss models, system-level and component-level thermal modeling, lifetime modeling, Monte Carlo analysis, and redundancy analysis. Thermal couplings and uneven thermal stresses among sub-modules are considered. A down-scale MMC has been used to demonstrate the proposed method and validate the theoretical analysis. The outcomes serve as a first step for developing realistic reliability analysis and model-based design methods for full-scale MMCs in practical applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYi Zhang\u0026nbsp;and Maryam Saeedifard won the first place prize\u0026nbsp;paper\u0026nbsp;award\u0026nbsp;for 2020 in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Power Electronics\u003C\/em\u003E, one of the most impactful journals in the area of power electronics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yi Zhang\u00a0and Maryam Saeedifard won the first place prize\u00a0paper\u00a0award\u00a0for 2020 in the\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, one of the most impactful journals in the area of power electronics."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-07-23 18:34:55","changed_gmt":"2021-07-26 18:01:07","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"649017":{"id":"649017","type":"image","title":"Yi Zhang and Maryam Saeedifard","body":null,"created":"1627065416","gmt_created":"2021-07-23 18:36:56","changed":"1627065416","gmt_changed":"2021-07-23 18:36:56","alt":"photograph of Yi Zhang and Maryam Saeedifard","file":{"fid":"246412","name":"Yi Zhang and Maryam Saeedifard.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yi%20Zhang%20and%20Maryam%20Saeedifard.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yi%20Zhang%20and%20Maryam%20Saeedifard.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1060164,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Yi%20Zhang%20and%20Maryam%20Saeedifard.png?itok=oYT6T28N"}}},"media_ids":["649017"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/maryam-saeedifard","title":"Maryam Saeedifard"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=63","title":"IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ieee-ecce.org\/2021\/","title":"IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137611","name":"Maryam Saeedifard"},{"id":"188332","name":"Yi Zhang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"188333","name":"Aalborg University"},{"id":"182646","name":"IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition"},{"id":"182789","name":"IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics"},{"id":"188334","name":"modular multilevel converters"},{"id":"188335","name":"medium-voltage applications"},{"id":"188336","name":"high-voltage applications"},{"id":"188337","name":"Huai Wang"},{"id":"188338","name":"Frede Blaabjerg"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}